Messages by Desiring God

Bank your hope on the justice of God to uphold the honor of his name by offering faith to his unworthy people.

It’s possible that we who think we’re chosen might slide into a hardening and fall away from Christ. But it isn’t for those justified in Christ.

The writer of Hebrews calls you to grow and press on to maturity. And you will—if God permits.

Do you have the disease of "dullness of hearing," and if so, how can you get well?

Christ became our salvation because he was perfect in three ways: in his dignity, in his eternity, and in his purity.

Because we have a great High Priest, the throne of God is a throne of grace. We can approach with confidence.

The Word of God is living and active and penetrates to the bottom of our lives and rips the pleasant mask off the ugly face of sin.

Greater than our fear of unbelief should be our faith in God’s promise to safely deliver us into his eternal rest.

If God ultimately saves us and we have assurance of salvation by faith in Christ, why do we need other believers?

The surety of believers lies not in the absence of conditions but in the promises of power.

Jesus is both the word from God and the way to God.

God’s people serve him not by giving him something he lacks, but by trusting his precious promises and depending on him at every step.

Sin tempts with empty promises, but it’s allure remains all too powerful. Fighting sin’s pleasure with the power of a superior promise is the only way to achieve real victory.

Living by faith in future grace is the only way that we can be empowered in this world for costly acts of love and radical obedience.

When we live by faith, we accomplish good works in love, trusting that God’s promises surpass any pleasure sin can offer.

Successful ministry begins with the earth-shattering reality that God himself is the greatest gift anyone can receive.

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In God’s sovereign, sustaining grace, he promises to hold us and keep us to the very end.

We are saved by Jesus' suffering because that is what will glorify God most.

Christ tasted death for everyone who has faith. Because the faith of everyone who believes was purchased by the death of Christ.

The second Adam, Jesus Christ, defeated death and restored the hope of Psalm 8 for all who are in him.

The message of our great salvation has been confirmed by a cluster of reliable witnesses.

Life in this world is like a river, not a lake. We’re all drifting toward something — some of us to eternal life, others eternal destruction.

Angels were created for Christ's everlasting glory and for our everlasting joy.

We owe our purification to Jesus and we owe our being to him.

The purification that was made was made once for all.

Do you want to hear God speak? God has now spoken not just by prophets, but through his Son.

What are God's purposes when he says "No" to his praying people?

Our joy in God is both our worship and our evangelism.

Human reconciliation is much harder than financial donation.

The sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.

What is our calling as parents and as a community of Christians toward our children?

Until the wrath of God figures as largely in our worldview as it did for Paul, we will not have the passion for evangelism that he had.

John Piper | God will have his way in the lives of his people and across the globe. And he will use our prayers to accomplish precisely what he wills.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge to reach worthy goals, such as winning outsiders to Christ.

John Piper | The providence of God is a most practical doctrine in ordering our lives and living by faith.

Everyone we lead to Christ is a fulfillment of the promise, "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply."

Five hundred years later, we still feel the effects of Luther’s life and labor. Pastors today can learn from his devotion to the church and his rigorous, heartfelt study.

John Piper | In order to understand God’s undisputed providence and sovereignty, we need to see that Scripture presents God as having both a sovereign will and a moral will.

Believing in the supremacy of God leads us to believe in the existence of absolute truth.

Let us be the salt and the light of our hostile and fearful society with courageous acts of inter-racial kindness and respect.

John Piper | God reigns supremely over the heart of every man and woman. But that doesn’t mean he’s just a puppet master pulling our strings.

Don’t neglect the amazing influence you have in the world through prayer.

God calls us from time to time, and some of us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle, and persist, and prevail in prayer.

Were you ransomed when Christ died? Are you still under the guilt and power of sin when you might be free?

At the end of this season, receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and serve you.

The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.

John Piper | The heart of a king or a president or a ruler is nothing but a stream of water in God’s hands. The Lord turns it wherever he wills.

While we are diverse in what helps us connect with God, the abiding foundation of our corporate worship is always centered on God through the Word.

Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in everything, including choosing where we live.